Bazinga said:
What would have happened if along with the violence the "peaceful" protestors robbed a bank
Wait, what?
In what scenario does peaceful protesting (quote marks eliminated by necessity) result in... a
bank robbery ?
By the protesters? Maybe by some third (or second!) party using it as cover for their own actions, because they knew of the date in advance. But even that's far-fetched. Bank robberies are rare. But you had to play the 'what-if' game, again. You're equating protests with riots / looting, and they are not the same thing.
As for 'second' party I mention above... I'll let you chew on that for a bit. LIHOP / MIHOP aren't fables. Actually, I'll say it overtly -- government agents acting as clandestine saboteurs (remember Minneapolis / George Floyd?) There are other myriad examples. Entire books have been written on them.
My friend... you are never, ever going to get this board to shift en masse with you to siding with LE / military, without question. Too many of us have been harmed firsthand by their nefarious actions (and, no, we didn't 'have it coming'.) Spend your energies on people who are deserving of empathy. LE has overwhelming firepower, the executive, and the courts behind them, with the media erecting pedestals for their collective worship. Cue Lee Greenwood.
Exactly *what* do 'we the people' have as our advocate, now? SCOTUS? They just gave away *more* power to the executive, knowing that they were the very last guardrail in place. We have no one except ourselves, and half of us fight the other half, while the 1/10th of 1% literally laugh at the plebes, who are so easily duped into working against their own best interests.
Thus, we have no CHOICE now, but to take mass public action, and see if TPTB decide, 'Fuck it... Tienanmen worked out just fine for the ruling party" Want to take bets as to whether we'll be fired on? I'm willing to cover any and *all* bets that we
will be fired upon.
And the same result will be had from it -- nothing except increased compliance with a totalitarian state.
"Governments should fear their people, not the other way around."